There'd be a lot less animals in the world if everyone was vegan. amirite?

Some land that is used for livestock farming would have more (and especially more diverse) animals in them though...

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Probably not more (though more biodiversity is a given). The free market is bad at many things, but it's GREAT at maximizing production (and by extension profit) per amount of land

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Between rodents and birds it's entirely possible there would be more animals

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Insects alone would win the quantity calc

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I dont know man. A pig farm will cram them in like 5 square feet or so apiece. That's going to be pretty damn hard for anything but insects to match.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I don't see how, near me is a field of cows and it's regularly filled with birds but a nearby arable farm has bird scorers that keep out birds and probably a few other animals. If every farm becomes and arable farm farmers will be doing all they can to keep pests out but in livestock farming as long as their is grass it doesn't matter what other animals share the fields (unless it's badgers of course as farmers are massive anti-vaxxers).

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I think it's because we'd need less land to grow the crops needed to feed the population. For example, about 75% of current soy production is to feed livestock.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

provided the land wasn't used for something else, yea

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Food would be a lot cheaper and significantly more plentiful

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Humans account for 36% of the biomass of mammals on Earth. Livestock account for 60% of the biomass of mammals on Earth. Wildlife accounts for 4% of the biomass of mammals on Earth. With less livestock there would probably be more wild animals.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yea but the increase in wild animals probably wouldn't match the decrease in livestock considering it's 60% of the worlds biomass

by Anonymous 2 years ago

That biomass has to go somewhere. If it's not into wild mammals it'll be wild birds, insect, reptiles...

by Anonymous 2 years ago

no, theres just less total biomass yes, percentage wise it would be more wildlife, but it wouldnt actually be more

by Anonymous 2 years ago

There'd be a lot less farmed animals, and thus a lot, lot more wild animals - enough to fill a space the size of Australia, US, EU and China combined apparently.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Buuuut definitely fewer total animals. There's no way nature can compete with the sheer number of bodies a ranch can shove into a shed

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Fewer

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Calm down there, Stannis.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

the world is more beautiful without human too

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Fewer, not less.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

What would we do with all of the cows, pigs , chickens etc if everyone went vegan?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

What do you think happens to them now? If the world went vegan we wouldn't be breeding more into existence. They don't produce children by chance. We artificially inseminate them when we want to eat more.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

So, we would control their population by breeding. Why would someone take care of them? Would we turn them lose into nature?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Exactly, they wouldn't be bvred for food so they'd have to live wild in much smaller numbers.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

There would be issues, such as over farming of certain crops

by Anonymous 2 years ago